TK up is for mouth breathing invertebrates who never really learned to
formulate a map in their head which they compare to the sectional and
any other nav instruments they may be using.

I see people like this all the time, they have to rotate their sectional
chart whenever they change heading or they will get confused. These are
the same people that get lost when flying south because now left on the
map does not mean left in the world.

I have found that pilots navigating with GPS most often loose
situational awareness when using TK up than using North up. The folks
using TK up know only that they are heading toward whatever they punched
in for "Direct To". These are the people that cannot adequately tell
ATC their location in reference to a nearby town or airport because they
can't relate their left and right to north and south.

As you mentioned in the first sentence of your post, "TK up is better
when you know where you are." You folks flying around with TK up
because it appears to be easier, you are just asking for a navigation
related airspace bust.

Most pilots using GPS as their primary means of navigation don't know
exactly where they are, so by your statement they should probably be
using North Up. If they knew where they were they wouldn't be using the
GPS.



Todd Pattist wrote in
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sdfsdf wrote:


TK up is better when you know where you are. North up is
probably better if you don't and are trying to compare GPS
to the sectional.
Todd Pattist
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